Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie: Ole's brother Death s…

did the tower-keeper want patent blacking or grease?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tower keeper · What happens: do, want · To what, where: patent blacking

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 928 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie: Ole's brother Death shows Hjalmar how he sorts the riders by their mark-books» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 keeper	det
3	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keeper	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 tower	punct
5	keeper	keeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 want	nsubj
6	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 did	parataxis
7	patent	patent	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 blacking	compound
8	blacking	blacking	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 want	obj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 grease	cc
10	grease	grease	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 blacking	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	want	present	the tower keeper	patent blacking or grease					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot blacking=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

grease

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	grease	grease	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

patent blacking, obvs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	patent	patent	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blacking	compound
2	blacking	blacking	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 obvs	punct
4	obvs	obv	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 blacking	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

grease, obviously

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	grease	grease	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 grease	punct
3	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	1 grease	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

sheep fat, mostly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sheep	sheep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fat	amod
2	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mostly	punct
4	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	2 fat	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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